{"id":1077,"date":"2020-05-24T16:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1077"},"modified":"2021-12-09T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:32:33","slug":"shoals-of-herring-ewan-macoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"Shoals Of Herring (Ewan MacColl)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WITH OUR NETS AND GEAR WE;RE FAR-ING ON THE WILD AND WASTEFUL OCEAN <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IT&#8217;S OUT THERE ON THE DEEP THAT WE HARVEST AND REAP OUR BREAD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AS WE HUNTED FOR THE SHOULS O&#8217; HERRING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O, it was a fine and a pleasant day<br>Out of Yarmouth harbour I was faring<br>As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger<br>For to go and hunt the shoals of herring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O, we left the home grounds in the month of June<br>And to canny Shiels we soon was bearing<br>With a hundred cran of the silver darlings<br>That we&#8217;d taken from the shoals of herring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O, we fished the Swarth and the Broken Bank<br>I was a cook and I&#8217;d a quarter-sharing<br>And I used to sleep, standing on me feet<br>And I&#8217;d dream about the shoals of herring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now you&#8217;re up on deck, you&#8217;re a fisherman<br>You can swear and show a manly bearing<br>Take your turn on watch with the other fellows<br>While you&#8217;re searching for the shoals of herring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O, the work was hard and the hours were long<br>And the treatment sure it took some bearing<br>Scraps o&#8217; navigation that&#8217;s yer education<br>As you hunted for the shoals of herring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the stormy seas and the living gales<br>Just to earn your daily bread you&#8217;re daring<br>Sailed a million miles caught ten million fishes<br>We were sailing after shoals of herring<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NIGHT AND DAY WE&#8217;RE FAR-ING COME WINTER WAVE OR WINTER GALE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SWEATING THROUGH COLD GROWING UP GROWING OLD AND DYING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AS WE HUNTED FOR THE SHOULS O HERRING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITH OUR NETS AND GEAR WE;RE FAR-ING ON THE WILD AND WASTEFUL OCEAN IT&#8217;S OUT THERE ON THE DEEP THAT WE HARVEST AND REAP OUR BREAD AS WE HUNTED FOR THE SHOULS O&#8217; HERRING O, it was a fine and a pleasant dayOut of Yarmouth harbour I was faringAs a cabin boy on a sailing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/?p=1077\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shoals Of Herring (Ewan MacColl)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northseagas.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}